Consider this, we have been only properly open 30 years or so, and you find stuff like this in the most unexpected of places: ZkpbQeQDScs Supposedly an ancient Indian warfare training school in Florence, Italy - although it looks to me like some sort of ancient eastern warfare exhibition event. Neve...

Just an anecdote: I was in conversation yesterday in the Middle East with a couple of Syrians/Lebanese.... The Syrian guy as part of the conversation mentioned that in fact the Indians "were the teachers of the Arabs". He said it without embarrassment or any sense of resentment or negativi...

Sergei Lavrov, Russian FM, on Channel 4. Forget the bullshit bait headline by Channel 4 - the interview is another study in how a country can be firm and flexible. Another great foreign minister out of Russia, this gent.

Swarajya's Interview with the PM. https://swarajyamag.com/economy/modi-to-gst-critics-can-we-have-milk-and-mercedes-at-the-same-rate Swarajya's interview with our PM - a media coup, and am proud to say that I write for them under my own name and one or two pseudonyms (don't recall)!!! Also, a couple...

Saw your response now... Thanks Nilesh. I'm getting a sense that it is going to be a new attack front. Nothing specific yet. So far my own (admittedly limited) research is suggesting it to be anywhere between 300 CE and 700 CE. But this is just stuff on the net. And somehow that seems incorrect to m...

BBC is soon coming out with "Legend of the Golden Man - Secret Warrior of the Steppes" or something very similar in name. They are getting in on the act, which means the pressure is beginning to tell. The reference is to Scythians. We need to keep an eye.

Above NYT story is not conclusive even according to them. "...appears to show" "nearly hit its target" , etc... In fact, considering the number of attacks, the death toll of one due to debris is remarkable. This is not to say we should go and buy Patriots. I've made my position o...

>>Raytheon was claiming 100% success in SA/Yemen theater, not true for the March 2018 event. Could you elaborate? Why is it not true for the March 2018 event? If you are referring to the death of an Egyptian expatriate that was from debris crashing into a residential area. I think so far that has be...

>>Those have been standard claims made about these missiles for years but as yet zero evidence they've hit anything. I am speaking specifically about SA. There is plenty of evidence on that. I'm not speaking about the accuracy, or how many Patriots need to be fired to take out one ballistic incoming...

^^I know for a fact that Patriots have been downing ballistic missiles from Yemen (provenance uncertain) over the last 12 months or so in Saudi Arabia. Not one of those Yemeni missiles have in fact hit the ground (except as debris) so far in the capital. I think one got through a roof in Jizan recen...

CRamS, They may have come to be viewed by the paymasters of their killers as agents of the state. It is not surprising that the killer charged in the Lankesh case are identified as "Shri Ram Sene" follower Parshuram Waghmore... as the Wikpedia page on them says: "The organisation was ...

That sword, for 2000+ BC is something awesome. When it is cleaned up, it's going to be difficult for an untrained eye to say whether it was made in 2000 BC or 2000 AD... check out the handle. Wielded by a six-footer, as the skeleton apparently indicates, that chariot-borne warrior with his helmet, s...

Shelve the anti-missile purchase for now. Trump is impulsive and it won't be a good idea to cross him. More important issues like trade and access to markets are at stake so shelve the purchase for now. Buying the S-400 is part of trade and access to markets, as well as central to security. There i...

Russia is a friend. Old, tried and tested. Propaganda notwithstanding, the relationship remains solid. Both parties have to b cognizant of new realities on the ground, and it would appear that they are. Neither party will abandon each other. But the mechanics of the relationship are different now - ...

>>Sir Europe need people and Central and Eastern Europe is solving that problem. It happening right now. Muslims have done great favour by revealing the cards. Mango European is tired of that. Sure, that is happening. But that does not mean that labour mobility from India to the UK cannot be improve...

>>I don't understand some members wanting GoI to fight for Immigration rights for Indians who want to settle in outside India This is not about "immigration rights". I am not sure there is such a thing. I am only aware of the regulatory environment surrounding immigration, which starts at ...

There is a huge difference in perceptions on these things, depending on whether one lives in the UK with citizenship or other legal right to stay, or one lives in India. In other words, where one's bread is buttered. It is only natural. One should expect no different, and it would be very Paki were ...

3. The fissiparous tendencies in both areas LOL good word. Congratulations. You are the first person I've ever seen to use that word, either spoken word or in print, in the entire 45 years I have lived on this earth. :mrgreen: You might be surprised to know that it is exactly the word that the Paks...

This is a perfectly developing scenario. Keep in mind we are the buyers. The imposition of sanctions on Russia is a US choice. CAATSA is it's own law and the extent to which it will be adhered to is its choice. We are buyers of US kit. India will want to know whether products purchased before the sa...

>>Back to future of pre WWI. This, in my opinion, is exactly right. And there are a lot of reasons why this US-Euro compact will not strengthen any further (or if it does, it will be temporary). Among them: 1. Demographics in both areas. 2. The state of "faith" systems in both areas. 3. Th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Brv2FaOluU Not sure if I've posted this here before: Dean Brown (Theoretical Physicist, Sanskritist and translator of The Upanishads) and the host Jeffrey Mishlove. The host tries to bring in PIE, but Brown never mentions it - just goes straight on to credit India fo...

Chetak he is not a commie. He probably does not have a grasp on strategic affairs good enough to have written that article, which is clearly messed up. But he is very much someone who is in the trenches on the right side and has been at it for some time. He is a true scholar. Not the standard JNU wa...

You left out the most significant part, a piece of info that says more than the long winded article :mrgreen: : MAKARAND R PARANJAPE @makrandparanspe The writer is poet and professor, JNU. :rotfl: Actually, Prof. Paranjpe is one of the good guys. Some of his quietly brutal takedowns on youtube have...

If Rajan should become BoE Gov, wait for the collective orgasmic shriek from the female twatterati of India, not to mention seminal journalists - "Modi kicked him out unfairly, and now BoE has grabbed our superstar Rajan"...